1835-03-28-United States Catholic Miscellany-Mormonism in Massachusetts

Mormonism in Massachusetts

Source: United States Catholic Miscellany, v14 n39, 28 March 1835, p. 312.

Mormonism in Massachusetts.—Strange as it may seem, those senseless wretches, the Mormons, have numerous and organized societies in the neighborhood of Northampton, Mass.; and in South Hadley they have formed a junction with another precious denomination of fanatics who call themselves "perfectionists," forsooth. Their religious excercises consist of exhortations, jumpings, dances, and so forth, and they have, says a Northampton paper found a dozen proselytes among the highly intelligent citizens of old Hampshire. We beg the editor's pardon, but we fancy there must be some mistake about the "intelligence" aforesaid.